Bernard Sumner leading New Order at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl. July 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Having been confirmed on the bill for Coachella later this year, New Order have decided to head off for some of their own shows around the festival’s two weekends.
Ahead of the first Coachella date on April 16th, the band play Radio City Music Hall in New York, and then have California shows in Santa Barbara and Berkeley before the second Coachella weekend.
It’s over a year now since Music Complete – ‘a complete rebirth‘ according to Live4ever’s review:
“As in your face as this band have ever been, full of energy and understated panache, nothing will quite prepare die-hard fans for what happens next. ‘Tutti Frutti‘ opens in high camp, Italo House style before in a never heard previously departure going full throttle into Chic territory (vocals of course aside), in the process recapturing the absolutely diaphanous pop sensibility of the group’s best side project Electronic at its early peak.”
“It almost goes without saying that the collective’s no-Hook prerogative is being flouted to its max; ‘People On The High Line‘ thumps with a limb-wrecking Cantina piano heft, whilst ‘The Game‘ tics nervously around a hybrid programming/people axis.”
Tour dates:
APRIL
13 – New York, NY, Radio City Music Hall
16 – Indio, CA, Coachella
18 – Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Bowl
21 – Berkeley, CA, Greek Theater
23 – Indio, CA, Coachella